![]() The town was made into a bustling resort by the Victorians, who built splendid – now decaying – Gothic buildings, while sadly allowing poverty and disease to run riot. Gangs of smugglers have inhabited a maze of ancient cliffside caves since the Middle Ages. As every schoolchild knows, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 saw the demise of King Harold, the Norman invasion and the birth of modern England. Many have come over from Brighton and down from London, but the town’s unique identity has been forged over the course of more than a thousand years of history. It is a coven of creatives, filmmakers and musicians from all walks of life. If your film embodies our ideals and aspirations, we will help it get the recognition it deserves.įYI, HASTINGS is fast becoming one of the premier sites in the UK for film and television production. ![]() ROCKS FILM FESTIVALS showcase emerging and established filmmaking talent from around the world and aim to create a platform for original voices from all walks of life. The next edition of the festival will take place 14-15 April 2023 at the PRINTWORKS, a unique arts space in the old Hastings Observer Newspaper building in the cyberpunkesque Gotham Alley, often used in film productions. Celebrity actor Madeline Smith and acclaimed director David Caffrey presented awards. HASTINGS ROCKS 2022 screened 66 films (including 6 feature films) to 450 attendees. In keeping with the UK seaside town’s culture and history, we especially welcome works that explore dark & esoteric themes as well as films that are made in Hastings. Though this 3D printed rock is only a fraction of the estimated half-tonne weight of the real Block Island, Caparro said, "it's the next best thing to bringing back real Martian rock samples back to Earth.HASTINGS ROCKS is home to independent films that push boundaries across all genres, fiction or non-fictional. This model was then split up and printed in 11 sections, which took over 305 hours! The Block Island replica was then painted to match the colours from Opportunity’s PanCam images. They created depth meshes of the meteorite's surface from six positions, then combined them into a three-dimensional digital model. The researchers applied software methods usually used to help navigate the rover. Firstly they printed miniature versions of the rocks but Kris Caparro from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was adamant that the only natural way to visualise the images that Opportunity had beamed back was for the rock to be life-size. The replica give researchers the chance to examine the contours of the rock, which could have entered the atmosphere during the Noachian period approximately 4,000 million years ago.ĭespite having images of the rock since 2009 it wasn’t until recently that researchers were able to fill gaps in the 3D model left from the rover’s original images. ![]() Using an FDM machine and ABS as the material they’ve managed to reproduce a replica in 11 sections to be glued together. With these pictures and the rover's precise measurements those boffins over at NASA have been able to reproduce an exact replica of the rock using… yep you guessed it… 3D Printing. Opportunity’s panoramic camera has been able to capture pictures of the 67 cm iron meteorite. ![]() Only a perfect storm of specific entry point couples with a shallow flight path could keep a meteorite intact as must have been the case with Block Island – the largest meteorite yet found on Mars. It’s significant becuase the majority of meteorites break up when they hit the martian ground because the atmosphere is not dense enough to slow them down. One of the most significant discoveries made by Opportunity is that of the meteorite Block Island, found in 2009. Amazingly Opportunity has outlasted its predicted lifespan by 40 times, in January it had been operational for a decade!Ī decade! Think about some technology you had a decade ago and ask yourself where it is now. Where’s that Nokia N-Gage? That original Xbox? That Concorde? Not roaming the terrain of Mars and reporting back finds that could lead to some of the most substantial breakthroughs in space exploration, without endangering a single living soul unlike the ill fated Columbia Space Shuttle, which malfunctioned killing all seven crew members just four months before Opportunity launched. There are two Rovers currently roaming Mars’ unchartered terrain, Curiosity and Opportunity.
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